Today the Nation Network would like to announce the winner of the NHLNumbers logo contest - Entry "D" by Gregg Beever. Gregg is a graphic designer and webmaster by trade, but he also publishes a web comic called Inglorious Hipsters, which you should definitely check out. Follow Gregg on twitter here as well.

The number of quality submissions to the contest was high, so this was by no means an easy choice. A late "amalgam" entry by OilersNation commenter Lead Hands McLezy made our task even more difficult, but in the end we went with Gregg's original concept (although me may ask him to incorporate the Nation's iconic Fist logo somewhere in the final product).

The new one is far better. It has a slicker font, cleaner lines, it's more punchy, and has sexier colours. It may have been influenced, but it was drastically changed, and improved upon. I wouldn't have called it, "a rip off".